Careers in the Cultural & Creative Industries (P4000E)

15 credits, Level 4

Spring teaching

On this module, you’ll discover, develop and plan potential career and entrepreneurship pathways and strategies in the cultural and creative industries.

Through a range of engagements with alumni industry professionals, group activities and individual research, you’ll gain the skills and knowledge to develop and manage your career interests and progression.

You’ll reflect on your current skills, values, and priorities, and analyse how these relate to your individual portfolio project. You’ll hear from speakers about a range of different careers and entrepreneurship opportunities developed by alumni. Your independent work will finish with a one-to-one conversation with a self-selected alumni industry professional. These discussion will help you consider both national and international employment markets and opportunities.

By gaining knowledge of employability and entrepreneurship in your chosen sector, you’ll learn how to identify and reflect on:

• career options: both those you aspire to and some that you haven’t considered before
• career options that are emerging through developments in technologies and cultural changes
• career options that question and challenge the status quo.

You’ll consider how to best position yourself during and after your degree, and into possible career pathways. You’ll stay in touch with the expanding and evolving network of Sussex alumni at the forefront of industry and social change.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 16 hours of contact time and about 134 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2026/27. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.